John Humphreys Paley (35 results)

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. 1776772340. 4/21/2026 11:52:20 AM.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. John Paley (illustrator). Previous owner's writing on fep.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Paley, John (illustrator). Trade paperback, later printing, 176pages, illustrated by drawings; very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Adventure in Cooking: Poultry, Meats, Fish and Finishing Touches (Ducks Unlimited), and for Sam Fadala's The Complete Guide to Game Care & Cookery (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Light shelf wear. A couple short tears to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. John Paley; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. 176 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Lightly rubbed on the corners; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by Mike Barnes; Entree; Fit for the Table; Grouse; Partridge; Pheasant; Snipe and Woodcock; Duck; Wild Goose; Woodpigeon; Rabbit; Hare; Venison; Soup and Game Pies; Trout and Salmon; and Good Companions; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Paley, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. A 1st edition/1st printing in fine condition. There is no wear to jacket although there is 1 closed tear at the upper rear fold. The jacket is not price clipped, the covers are clean and bright and the edges are sharp. There are no other tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark, NOT ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. JOHN PALEY and DAVE PARFITT (illustrator). Excellent fine interior and boards, numerous photos and illustrations, d/jacket of excellent bright appearance, near fine as a line crease to front inner flap, covered with a removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Paley (illustrator). Near fine book in clean fresh pictorial board ; small bumps to top fore corners. Internally mint and free of inscriptions; delightfully and copiously illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. John Paley (illustrator). 0715302701. Hardcover, in a Dust Jacket which has light corner wear. Not ex. library. SIGNED by John Humphreys without dedication to bookplate, tipped into title page. 160 pages, illustrated with colour and b/w drawings throughout. Contents clean, tight and bright. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jack Barnard, John Paley, Dave Parfitt (illustrator). First Edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paley, John. (illustrator). First Edition. 192pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, col ills (many full page). Or green cloth in jacket.Slightest of edge wear to jacket. A look at the world of old poachers presenting a selection of colourful yarns including long netters, hare snarers, gate netters, fish snatchers, night shooters etc. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Paley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2003 reprint.

Maroon Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Paley, John & Murphy, Philip (illustrator). Revised & Enlarged. "Desolate, remote, yet full of the echoes of history, the East Anglian fens are a perfect habitat for today's wildfowler, wanderer and fisherman. They have a strange and wild history, for savage Vikings, monks, Romans, adventurers, dour Dutch drainers and a creeping race of mongrel Britons have all, in their time, navigated the slow, meandering rivers. Later, the Fenman was to wrest a precarious living from eels, fish, wildfowl, reed and peat cutting; from duck decoys, coprolite mines and herding bullocks, keeping at bay as best he might the ague and clouds of poisonous mosquitoes. The underlying theme was water, the ever present risk of floods, dykes, drains, washes, learns and cuts of his half-tamed waterland. The Fenman and his hostile terrain with its strange birds and beasts are inextricably linked. This is the story of the gunners and fishermen, of wild, bloodshot sunsets, waving reeds, of old yarns, floods, otters, puntgunners, hen harriers and the author's life spent with rod, gun and flat-bottomed boat among them. Out on the lonely fen waiting under a harvest moon for the mallard, the ghosts of the skaters, wild 'slodgers', holy men and drainers, not to mention the awesome, spectral hound Black Shuck, rustle and whisper restlessly in the reeds and there are echoes of wildfowl rising from an ancient mere with the sound of distant thunder. Evocative, richly informative and beautifully illustrated by John Paley and Philip Murphy, this book will delight all those fascinated by the more remote areas of our countryside - and by tales and recollections of times past."; an enlarged edition of this classic title, now with superb specially commissioned water-colour paintings; first published in 1986, & now brought back in response to popular demand; price-intact, protected D/J.; 192 pages. N.B. this is a thick & heavy book which, together with protective wrapping, takes its weight above the 1kg. standard quoted rate for post & packing so extra shipping charges will be requested. First Thus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. illustrated by colour & b/w. drawings. Illustrator: Paley, John & Murphy, Philip. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fishing & Hunting; The Fens; East Anglia; Sports & Pastimes; England; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 0715399942. ISBN/EAN: 9780715399941. Inventory No: 3640.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 25x18cm. First edition. Aspects of dog work and shooting examined in detail by international experts. 224pp with colour & black-and-white artwork, colour & monochrome photo illustrations, and index. Hardback / hard cover: green boards, backstrip titled in gilt. VERY GOOD+ copy in VERY GOOD lightly rubbed unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. fully illustrated by John Paley (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by John Humphrey's on a Publishers label attached to title page. Unmarked book with no name - D/j unclipped unmarked with very minor light wear to edges only - a beautiful copy - Posting from Cornwall St154. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Paley (illustrator). 220 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Tight firm clean copy with no signatures, inscriptions or notations discovered. Illustrated throughout. Green cloth hard cover with gold gilt titled spine - slight edge wear. Unclipped jacket in similar condition.

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. John Paley (illustrator). Reprint. This copy is bound in illustrated laminated boards, the dust wrapper is in mint condition. The text block is unmarked, tight, white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. A celebration of the countryside as seen through the eyes of John Humphreys. The book gives the reader the chance to join the dusty bustle of a threshing gang with steam engine and elevator, watch the hedge trimmer at work, and meet the eel catcher with his wriggling harvest. Ref JJJ 2.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. John Paley (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The word "poacher" evokes strong emotions from people in many walks of life. Urban romantics see the poacher as the Robin Hood of the countryside, but gamekeepers loathe him. Without poachers, however, there would be fewer gamekeepers, and so the two callings are inextricably linked. Taking a close look at the world of the old poachers, this book presents a variety of colourful yarns of their activities in bygone days. The long netters, gate netters, hare snarers, fish snatchers, night shooters and old trail netters here rub shoulders - a strange, lawless band of ragged individuals, some of them better versed in the ways of fish and fowl than the keeper himself. Few of them gained riches from their activities, but they all had a compelling urge to follow a precarious and risky calling. As a last resort they brawled with keepers, sometimes winning, more often losing, and in the early days they were transported or imprisoned for taking a hare. The modern, large-scale poaching gang which poisons rivers, strips covers and is ready to commit murder rather than risk capture has no place in this book. It is nostalgically dedicated to the rural character of a century ago. Ref DDD 1.